{"id":16327,"date":"2013-03-15T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=16327"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:26:04","slug":"idahos-jobless-rate-stagnant-workforce-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/03\/15\/idahos-jobless-rate-stagnant-workforce-shrinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho&#8217;s Jobless Rate Stagnant, Workforce Shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s January <a title=\"Tracking Idaho\u2019s Unemployment Rate\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/unemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">jobless rate<\/a> didn&#8217;t change from December. It remained at 6.3 percent according to the Idaho Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>December and January&#8217;s seasonally adjusted <a title=\"Tracking Idaho\u2019s Unemployment Rate\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/unemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate<\/a> of 6.3 is a four-year low, but Idaho&#8217;s workforce isn&#8217;t adding jobs as expected. The Department says Idaho&#8217;s labor force actually declined in January. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also estimated the statewide labor force, essentially flat since last spring, declined in January, underscoring the slowness of Idaho\u2019s recovery and furthering analyst concerns for a sufficient labor force to man a robust expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho employers had been increasing their hiring as 2012 ended, but the pace of job gain at just over 1 percent was slower than the nation\u2019s. &#8211; Idaho Dept. of Labor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Labor Department reports Idaho&#8217;s employment increase from December to January was the smallest gain for that time period since the recession.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Idaho\u2019s ranks of the unemployed fell by 400 from December, matching the labor force decline and keeping the unemployment rate unchanged for January. Total employment increased less than 50 to 725,600 to remain 2,900 short of the pre-recession peak. &#8211; Idaho Dept. of Labor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s jobless rate remains below the national average, which was 7.8 percent in January.<\/p>\n<p>February unemployment data is due out March 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s January jobless rate didn&#8217;t change from December. It remained at 6.3 percent according to the Idaho Department of Labor. December and January&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 6.3 is a four-year low, but Idaho&#8217;s workforce isn&#8217;t adding jobs as expected. The Department says Idaho&#8217;s labor force actually declined in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[47,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}